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HITCHCOCK 532 HITCHCOCK for the priesthood in the Society of Jesus; the second son, Donald, became a doctor on the Hotel Dieu staff. The father died in Montreal, February 19, 1907, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, the immediate cause of his death a gastro-enteritis induced probably by ptomaine poisoning. Andrew Macph.^il. Hitchcock, Alfred (1813-1874). A surgeon of Fitchburg, Masachusetts, prominent during the civil war, Alfred Hitch- cock was born in Westminster, Vermont, Oc- tober 17, 1813, and died in Fitchburg, March 30, 1874. He was educated at Phillips An- dover Academy and at Dartmouth Medical School, where he received his M. D. in 1838. Going on to Pittsfield he took a second M. D. from the Berkshire Medical Institution in 1843 -- and even then, not being satisfied with his sheepskins, got still a third at the Jefferson Medical College in 1845, Meanwhile Middle- bury College had conferred an A. M. on him in 1844. Settling in practice in Ashby, Massachusetts, he removed to Fitchburg in a short time. Be- tween 1847 and 1855 he was a member of the governor's council and during the war a spe- cial agent of the state to superintend the care and transportation of the wounded. According to Dr. S. D. Gross (A Century of Amer. Med., Phila. 1876, p. 176) Dr. Hitchcock performed the operation of esophagotomy suc- cessfully for the removal of a foreign body in 1867, this being among the early operations of the kind; he designed a stretcher, a surgical chair and a splint and remodeled several sur- gical instruments. He was a member of the state medical so- ciety from 1839 until his death, delivering the annual discourse in 1869 on the topic: "Or- ganic and parallel relation of some of the practical truths and errors of Christianity and medican science." We may suppose that the oration was founded on his publication : "Christianity and Medical Science," which ap- peared in 1867. His son, James Ripley Wellman Hitchcock, was a graduate of Harvard in 1877, changing his name to Ripley Hitchcock. He attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, New York, and adopted literature as a profession, settling in New York. He pub- lished many articles on etching, also the "Western Art Movement" (1885). Appleton's Cyclop. .-mer. Biog., 1887, vol. iii. 215-216. Cat. Officers and Fellows. Massachusetts Med. Soc . 178I-I893, Boston. 1894. Index. Med. Communs. Massachusetts Med Soc 1790-1901, 1903. Hitchcock, Edward (1828-1911). Edward Hitchcock, educator, was the son of Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864), geologist and president of Amherst College, and of his wife, Orra White. The first American ancestor of the Hitchcock family was Luke Hitchcock, who settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1640. Edward was born at Amherst, May 23, 1828, and was educated at Williston Seminary and at Amherst College where he graduated in 1849. He received an M. D. from Harvard Medical School in 1853 and then taught chem- istry and natural history at Williston Seminary until 1861. At this time he was employed by his father in geological work connected with the geological survey of the State of Vermont and assisted in the preparation of the report. From 1861 until his death, a period of fifty years. Dr. Hitchcock held the chair of hygiene and physical education at Amherst. He was a member of the United States Sanitary Com- mission, in active service for the early part of the Civil War. In 1897-98 he was acting presi- dent of the college, and from 1898 to 1910, dean of the faculty. After 1869 he was a trustee of Mt. Holyoke College, and after 1879 a member of the State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity. Dr. Hitchcock was a pioneer advocate of the physical training of college students ; as early as 1852 he published a popular textbook en- titled "Anatomy and Physiology," and later, "Anatomy, Physiology and Anthropometry." He married Mary Lewis Judson of Strat- ford, Connecticut, in 1853. Their son, Edward Hitchcock, Jr., was professor of Physical Cul- ture at Cornell University, 1884-1904. .Another son, Dr. John Sawyer Hitchcock, of North- ampton, was Director of the Division of Com- municable Diseases, Massachusetts State De- partment of Health. Dr. Hitchcock died at his home in Amherst, Massachusetts, February 15, 1911. Information from Edward Hitchcock, Jr. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., New Vor .Tour. .^mer. Med. Assoc, 1911. 56, p. 75: Who's Who in .America, 1908-1909, vol. v Hitchcock, Homer Owen (1827-1888). Homer Owen Hitchcock, surgeon and gyne- cologist, was born in Westminster, Vermont, January 28, 1827, and had his general educa- tion in the common schools and at Dartmouth College (A. B., 1851 ; A. M., 18.S4). After serv- ing as principal of Axford Academy, New Hampshire (during 1852-3), he took one course at Dartmouth Medical College and one at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, receiving his M. D. from the latter in 1855. He then served as house surgeon